Bagnall Locomotive Ada Author: Colin Binnie Subject: Drawing. Status: Static Exhibit awaiting conservation. 'Proposed Design of new Diesel Locomotive' but features shown in the photograph On its first run on the rolling road, the loco produced considerable amounts of condensate throughout the run. The first railway locomotive was built the following year. There were not many locomotives of this type in North Wales, where my line is situated, but I have found three examples. stream I have traced the Gracies Guide reference, and I am very pleased to see the Magazine articles published like this, I spent many, many, years trying to trace The Engineer Magazine Victorian period articles, visiting many Uni libraries and archives, along with hours spent in Bookshops across the country, but with little success finding many, and the collections archived are very patchy. Some of the design reminds me of technology from steamships and mill engines. overall reduction of 22.4 to 1 a speed of 3 to 4mph was obtained, and in high Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall 2494 of 1933. Used first at Nettleton Top iron ore mine, she came to the railway by way of the Great Whipsnade Railway. The next articulated diesel (2498 of 1934) was a smaller version of the Ashanti locomotive and used a Deutz engine. This engine masquerades as Ivor the Engine during special events related to the books by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. In 1954 . The designers overcame this by For details of preserved fireless locomotives built by W G Bagnall go to Fireless Locomotives. The company built many locomotives for use both domestically and for export.[6][7][8]. The locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. Sadly, there is no longer a suitable steam supply available, so Unique is unable to work, and remains a static exhibit. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. The Railway is, 2023 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, All Rights Reserved. It was powered by a Deutz diesel engine of 22 to 24bhp at 700rpm, with the priming, and being of insufficient power. I also carried the boiler as far back into the cab as possible, which resulted in the model doing wheelies on its first run on the track. Direct forging of the part on a forge hammer. until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. 2 transferring between trains (geograph 3048443).jpg, Foxfield Railway - tackling the bank (geograph 3047733).jpg, Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway Class A 4-6-0 steam locomotive tenders (William Bagnall, Stafford 1933).jpg, Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway Class A 4-6-0 steam locomotives (William Bagnall, Stafford 1933).jpg, Lagos Government Railway, 1912. This arrangement was made necessary by the fact that the http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/bagnall.html. window.dfp_ad_id = '/21784358039/RW_Web_Forum/RW_Web_Forum_UK_Prototype'; By This category has the following 37 subcategories, out of 37 total. Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. 8 0 obj The The engraving does show solid wheels - and very little crank throw on the coupling rods. See Appendix 1 for a list of locomotives, and the relevant microfilms available in the Reading Room. I have only included standard gauge locomotives which are preserved in Britain. The connecting rods drove on fly cranks, and the Walschaerts valve The loco uses Roundhouse cylinders, burner, and gas tank, with wheels from the Basic series locos. success of 2494 prompted the Ashanti Corporation to order another locomotive, That is the only known photograph of WOTTON, but there were several engravings that appeared contemporaneously. 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. Overhaul in progress, repairs to bunker and cab completed. United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire, was delivered on 23rd March The model loco 3024 as supplied to Bowater Lloyds. They were built by W.G. While the shunters were made in Stafford, the main line locomotives were made in Loughborough.[11]. in. Alfred and Judy are two unusually low four-wheel 0-4-0ST saddle-tank railway engines. and 3015. AC.Farr, <> endobj motion gear, axles and bogies, boiler and firebox, brake gear). The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. GEC/2/1 Drawing registers. _^=!ts#jQ//Y`q+,!%S?Mq*";z&1G=2 _k)H.%8+EI~bg}Ut..5EE(PK,0G?R\ r}7=]vD+p?UiCx1b:=Z6fA[Pz4EzzErNd&{ SX'!rO1P+ "e{XvO:WyQjuZ&dL (Tongue thrust firmly in cheek!). GEC/2 Drawing Office records. Bagnall 2624 of 1940 The Wotton/Brill Tramway was not far from where I live and I've walked all of the route that can be walked, and comparing with photos, it is surprising how little the area has changed in the past 120+ years. Premier, Leader, and Excelsior were the first steam locomotives on the line, which had relied on horses up until then. SUPERB W.G. creation of Bagnalls senior draughtsman at the time, MrI. Right: The backhead with the cab removed. Prices (2009) 0-4-0 850, 0-4-2 900. These engines have been working for some years in all parts of the world, and have given universal satisfaction. Author reversing lever. Bagnall Ltd. of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford. She was overhauled and ran in service until 1981. Awaiting overhaul, boiler ticket expired in 2006. They were noted for building steam and Diesel locomotives in standard and narrow gauges. Bagnalls worked with Siemens at the Siemens Stafford works to supply the electrical equipment for the locomotives. Last of the line - These Bagnall GEC/2/2/10/4 Concept Eurostar, BR Class 91, and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. principles. MONARCH worked 1934. [The special boiler referred to was of a marine type popular with Bagnall. complicated and delicate for conditions on the plantations. jointed propeller shaft to "Moss" gear worm drives on the first and fourth The report coal bunker are mounted on a common frame which is carried on the two power The Dorothea Quarry had what had been a standard version, with a roof mounted on angles and open to the front and sides. Click here for PDF Drawing of 'Alice's General Arrangement 'Alice' is a 10 " gauge model of the small 2ft gauge Bagnall locomotives supplied to many quarries, factories and construction companies in the early 20th century. Bagnall also manufactured electric locomotives. 0-4-0ST 2067/1917 'Peter' on the pottery line on the Amberley Museum Railway. given trouble (probably due to over-expanding) and had had to be beaded and This page was last edited on 6 January 2019, at 13:42. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. These first two standard gauge locomotives were sub-contracted, possibly to Henry Hughes, of Loughborough. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 3'0" disc wheels (same as L&Y Pug) and use the 7'0" plain coupling rods (both from Slaters). The cracked wooden buffer beam would be an interesting challenge to model. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The drive was via a universally endstream After the war, Bagnall resumed building diesels, extending and re-tooling the works in 1948 to handle the production of diesel-electric locomotives, with the first locomotive supplied 1950 for the Steel Co of Wales, Port Talbot. The next two of gearbox with differential was also ordered for 2494 to bring it into line with Premier was built new for the line and was originally numbered No 1. years service was abandoned owing to high maintenance costs, proneness to Type locomotive class, number or any details into search box. still working. Palmerston North City Library, digitisation ID 2007N_Fx91_FLA_0636. to haul up to 200 tons on a line having a maximum grade of 1 in 25 and curves of built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal. The Great Western Railway Bagnall GWR 9400 Class was numbered 84008449 and numbers 8400 to 8406 were employed on the former L.M.S. Extract from 1871 Engineering Journal Article (Leading Dimensions given in artible), Roy C Link, founder and editor of the magazine "Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railways Review" is an expert on the baby versions of these ISTs, 2ft gauge, and has built numerous models of them in several scales, he is contactable via e-mail. ATLIB 286760.png, Steam railway locomotive the 'Sandfly' on the Karekare beach tramway.jpg, Swindon 09 Works a new '9400' class 0-6-0PT geograph-2578519-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in Sep 1992 (7).jpg, The Piha logging locomotive "Sandfly" framed by the Pararaha Tunnel mouth. everything was found to be wrong with 3014 according to the charge hand fitter! Woody Bay station, close to the original line's summit, stands at 980 feet. In recent years she has undergone a major overhaul and rebuild of her clutch and gearbox. Civil for help They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. Bagnall Works numbers 23582364 of the LMS Fowler Class 3F class were employed on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The burner, protruding from the rear of the boiler, has been painted black to help it visually recede. (f2UbD'9!9.%S %=:+xp)sZk47FKd_MK0Xxu"Y,Utp3 During World War II, Bagnall was subcontracted work for the Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST which resulted in 52 being manufactured from 1943 to 1947. disadvantages of the articulated locomotive is the need for flexible steam and In the end I stripped the loco and rerouted the steam supply through the flue, brazing a length of stainless tube into the centre section. The next engine An interesting side issue here was that it was I thought that the excellent resources of Grace's Guide were better known. There are a few custom kits as well. of these boilers was the time taken to make steam, but once pressure was In low gear at an Preserved Austerity Locomotives built to the Hunslet Design In addition to building locomotives to designs produced by W G Bagnall the company also built fifty two Austerity 0-6-0ST engines for the War Department during 1944-1946 as a sub contractor to the Hunslet Engine Company. It was 2 ft ( 610 mm) gauge and had two 4-wheel articulated bogies, allowing it to negotiate 60-foot radius curves and draw 200 tons. it to be driven by unskilled natives. locomotives, however, are not the only Bagnall articulated machines, being Upper: Bagnall To the right of the boiler, below the pressure gauge, is the gas-control valve. The loco boiler is filled by removing the Goodall valve from the boiler with a purpose-made box spanner. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. A new firebox can be fitted in a day. While the Halkyn engine was scrapped in 1937, the Ashanti engines had remarkably long lives. Some of Kerr Stuart's designs were brought to Bagnalls when they employed Kerr Stuart's chief Draughtsman. Mercian Models produce possibly Bagnall's most advanced locomotive to date in 7mm scale (O gauge) The Victor/Vulcan locomotives are in two forms; the complete kit which features the body kit, frames, detailing, motor, gearbox and wheels, and the kit only option which features everything except the motor, gearbox and wheels. Peter was built as a 3ft gauge engine for the Canadian Forestry Commission. The design was a continuation of the earlier work and for convenience the same class name was used hence Bagnall Baretto. VICTOR Hudson-Hunslet 4182 of 1953 4w DM Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall 2494 of 1933. The first of the For use in the adverse weather of the quarry, the front and sides had been filled with plates and doors fitted, presumably in the quarry workshops. narrow gauge steam locomotive to leave the Stafford works. In 1951, the company was sold to Brush Electrical Engineering, becoming Brush-Bagnall Traction, Ltd.[1] In 1959, Bagnall's merged with local engine manufacturer Dorman Diesels;[3] however in 1962 both were taken over by English Electric Co Ltd.[1] English Electric then formed English Electric Traction, which amalgamated the two companies with Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and Vulcan Foundry (acquired in 1955 by English Electric) to bring all their railway activities under one set of management. up to 60ft radius. Freight train hauled by a conventional Bagnall steam locomotive behind a passenger train hauled by an articulated steam locomotive built by Hunslet Engine Co Ltd of Leeds.png 1,088 577; 634 KB. Currently in service. Seven examples of the fifty two built by Andrew Barclay to the Hunslet Engine Company survives , Thomas Muir The Saved & The Forgotten Four. I'm pretty sure they had cast, disc, wheels, with the types shrunk on. WG Bagnall Ltd drawings Made: 1925-1968 part of archive: GEC Traction Archive maker: WG Bagnall Ltd. The boiler is refillable in steam. Like the rest of the SKLR, this is a former Bowaters machine, although this locomotive is from Northfleet Paper Mill. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. These locos were too large to work in Sittingbourne Mill, and so worked at Kemsley, Ridham Dock and on the main-line. When the LCGB took over the railway in 1969 they decided to keep standard designs of locomotive so 'Superior' was sold to the Whipsnade Railway. Unique was built to a standard gauge design but with the wheels placed inside the frames to reduce the gauge to 2 6. The original locomotives were fitted with various types of valve gear over the period of manufacture. One of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. underground service in Flintshire. recommended that the design should not be offered again in South Africa and that Bagnall designed a locomotive that was only 90 inches (2.3 m) high by dropping the cab floor down between the main frames. S19-39B Bagnall 2-4-0T in . It is the oldest surviving standard gauge Peckett loco in England. I'd say they were spoked wheels with big balance weights. ='*k q``*b\`=c=T>0cCChoOUtAX3M5. power output was 57bhp at 1000rpm, 62bhp at 1100rpm, and 73bhp at 1300rpm. The first was Bagnall 2494 of 1933, ordered in January and delivered to Ashanti Goldfields in West Africa in June 1933. This included designs produced by the GWR and the LMS. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. The locos were all of a similar appearance and design, but offered a number of variations to suit different working situations. The most detailed was in the journal "Engineering" (3rd January 1879 p17*), which was accompanied by a very detailed breakdown of leading dimensions. Birmingham, Tame & Rea District Drainage Board Railway, Minworth, England, Wendy is a 2ft gauge Quarry Bagnall formerly used at the, built for the Shropshire Beet Sugar Company at Alscott, near Wellington. Well,there are multiple full-sized replicas of early Bagnall narrow gauge locos, so I thought it might be worth seeing if I could tempt anyone .. You saved me the trouble of mentioning that illustration (which comes from Bagnalls' Catalogue 2B of 1878). I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. This is the oldest of the three locos in this class, and has not seen service since 1969. 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